
Birds in Nairobi National Park
Birds in Nairobi National Park : Nairobi national park is not only the world’s only wildlife park found in a city but also an important Birding Area (IBA) in Kenya, with over 520 recorded bird species, the park is one of the best sites to visit for Kenya birding safaris.
Nairobi national park hosts one of the 8 species of Kenya Mountains Endemic Bird Area, 27 species of the 4 Somali – Masai Biome and 25 species of the 67 African Highlands biome that occur in Kenya.
Here are the birds in Nairobi national park
STRUTHIONIFORMES: Struthionidae
- Common Ostrich
ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae
- White-faced Whistling-Duck
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- White-backed Duck
- Knob-billed Duck
- Egyptian Goose
- Spur-winged Goose

- Garganey
- Blue-billed Teal
- Northern Shoveler
- African Black Duck
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Cape Teal
- Red-billed Duck
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Southern Pochard
GALLIFORMES: Numididae
- Helmeted Guineafowl
GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae
- Crested Francolin
- Coqui Francolin
- Shelley’s Francolin
- Common Quail
- Harlequin Quail
- Hildebrandt’s Francolin
- Scaly Francolin
- Yellow-necked Francolin
PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae
- Greater Flamingo
- Lesser Flamingo
PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae
- Little Grebe
- Eared Grebe
COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae
- Speckled Pigeon
- Rameron Pigeon
- Lemon Dove
- Dusky Turtle-Dove
- Red-eyed Dove
- Ring-necked Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
- Tambourine Dove
- Namaqua Dove
- African Green-Pigeon
PTEROCLIFORMES: Pteroclidae
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
OTIDIFORMES: Otididae
- Kori Bustard
- White-bellied Bustard

- Black-bellied Bustard
- Hartlaub’s Bustard
MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae
- Hartlaub’s Turaco
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae
- White-browed Coucal
- Black Coucal
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Pied Cuckoo
- Thick-billed Cuckoo
- Dideric Cuckoo
- Klaas’s Cuckoo
- African Emerald Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- African Cuckoo
- Common Cuckoo
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae
- Eurasian Nightjar
- Sombre Nightjar
- Abyssinian Nightjar
- Plain Nightjar
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae
- Mottled Swift
- Common Swift
- Nyanza Swift
- African Swift
- Little Swift
- Horus Swift
- White-rumped Swift
- African Palm-Swift
GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae
- Streaky-breasted Flufftail
GRUIFORMES: Rallidae
- African Rail
- Corn Crake
- African Crake
- Lesser Moorhen
- Eurasian Moorhen
- Red-knobbed Coot
- African Swamphen
- Striped Crake
- Black Crake
GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae
- African Finfoot
GRUIFORMES: Gruidae
- Gray Crowned-Crane
CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae
- Water Thick-knee
- Spotted Thick-knee
CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae
- Black-winged Stilt
- Pied Avocet
CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae
- Pacific Golden-Plover
- Long-toed Lapwing
- Blacksmith Lapwing
- Spur-winged Lapwing
- Black-winged Lapwing
- Crowned Lapwing
- Lesser Sand-Plover
- Caspian Plover
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Common Ringed Plover
- Little Ringed Plover
- Three-banded Plover
- Chestnut-banded Plover
CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae
- Greater Painted-Snipe
CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae
- African Jacana
CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Ruff
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Temminck’s Stint
- Sanderling
- Little Stint
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Great Snipe
- Common Snipe
- African Snipe

- Common Sandpiper
- Green Sandpiper
- Spotted Redshank
- Common Greenshank
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Wood Sandpiper
CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae
- Small Buttonquail
CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae
- Temminck’s Courser
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Collared Pratincole
CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae
- Gray-hooded Gull
- Black-headed Gull
- Gull-billed Tern
- White-winged Tern
- Whiskered Tern
- African Skimmer
CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae
- African Openbill
- Black Stork
- Abdim’s Stork
- Woolly-necked Stork
- White Stork
- Saddle-billed Stork
- Marabou Stork
- Yellow-billed Stork
SULIFORMES: Anhingidae
- African Darter
SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae
- Great White Pelican
- Pink-backed Pelican
PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae
- Hamerkop
PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae
- Little Bittern
- Dwarf Bittern
- Gray Heron
- Black-headed Heron
- Goliath Heron
- Purple Heron
- Great Egret
- Intermediate Egret
- Little Egret
- Western Reef-Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Squacco Heron
- Malagasy Pond-Heron
- Striated Heron
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- White-backed Night-Heron
PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae
- Glossy Ibis
- African Sacred Ibis
- Hadada Ibis
- African Spoonbill
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Sagittariidae
- Secretarybird
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae
- Osprey
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae
- Black-winged Kite
- African Harrier-Hawk
- Palm-nut Vulture
- Egyptian Vulture
- European Honey-buzzard
- African Cuckoo-Hawk
- White-headed Vulture
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Hooded Vulture
- White-backed Vulture
- Rüppell’s Griffon
- Bateleur
- Black-chested Snake-Eagle
- Brown Snake-Eagle
- Crowned Eagle
- Martial Eagle
- Long-crested Eagle
- Lesser Spotted Eagle
- Greater Spotted Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Booted Eagle
- Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
- Tawny Eagle

- Steppe Eagle
- Imperial Eagle
- Verreaux’s Eagle
- African Hawk-Eagle
- Lizard Buzzard
- Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
- Gabar Goshawk
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
- African Marsh-Harrier
- Pallid Harrier
- Montagu’s Harrier
- African Goshawk
- Shikra
- Little Sparrowhawk
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
- Black Goshawk
- Black Kite
- African Fish-Eagle
- Common Buzzard
- Long-legged Buzzard
- Augur Buzzard
STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae
- Barn Owl
STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae
- Eurasian Scops-Owl
- Spotted Eagle-Owl
- Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- African Wood-Owl
- Marsh Owl
COLIIFORMES: Coliidae
- Speckled Mousebird
- Blue-naped Mousebird
TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae
- Narina Trogon
BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae
- Eurasian Hoopoe
BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae
- Violet Woodhoopoe
- White-headed Woodhoopoe
- Common Scimitarbill
- Abyssinian Scimitarbill
BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucorvidae
- Southern Ground-Hornbill
BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae
- African Gray Hornbill
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae
- Malachite Kingfisher
- African Pygmy Kingfisher
- Gray-headed Kingfisher
- Striped Kingfisher
- Giant Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher
CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae
- Little Bee-eater
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
- White-throated Bee-eater
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- European Bee-eater
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater
CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae
- European Roller
- Abyssinian Roller
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Broad-billed Roller
PICIFORMES: Lybiidae
- Red-and-yellow Barbet
- D’Arnaud’s Barbet
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Spot-flanked Barbet
- Black-throated Barbet
- White-headed Barbet
PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae
- Green-backed Honeyguide
- Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
- Pallid Honeyguide
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Greater Honeyguide
PICIFORMES: Picidae
- Eurasian Wryneck
- Rufous-necked Wryneck
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Brown-backed Woodpecker
- Mountain Gray Woodpecker
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker
FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae
- Pygmy Falcon
- Lesser Kestrel
- Eurasian Kestrel
- Greater Kestrel
- Red-footed Falcon
- Amur Falcon
- Sooty Falcon
- Eurasian Hobby
- African Hobby
- Lanner Falcon
- Peregrine Falcon
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae
- Meyer’s Parrot
PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae
- Gray Cuckooshrike
- Black Cuckooshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- African Golden Oriole
- African Black-headed Oriole
PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae
- Chinspot Batis
PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae
- White Helmetshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae
- Brubru
- Black-backed Puffback
- Black-crowned Tchagra
- Brown-crowned Tchagra
- Tropical Boubou
- Slate-colored Boubou
- Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
- Gray-headed Bushshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae
- Fork-tailed Drongo
PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae
- African Paradise-Flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Isabelline Shrike

- Lesser Gray Shrike
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Taita Fiscal
- Northern Fiscal
- White-rumped Shrike
PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae
- Cape Crow
- Pied Crow
PASSERIFORMES: Paridae
Birds in Nairobi National Park
- White-bellied Tit
- Red-throated Tit
PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae
- African Penduline-Tit
PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae
- Fischer’s Sparrow-Lar
- Foxy Lark
- Rufous-naped Lark
- White-tailed Lark
- Singing Bushlark
- Red-capped Lark
- Somali Short-toed Lark
- Short-tailed Lark
PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae
- Red-faced Crombec
- Moustached Grass-Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Black-collared Apalis
- Green-backed Camaroptera
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Apalis
- Gray Apalis
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Gray-capped Warbler
- Red-faced Cisticola
- Singing Cisticola
- Rattling Cisticola
- Winding Cisticola
- Stout Cisticola
- Croaking Cisticola
- Siffling Cisticola
- Zitting Cisticola
- Desert Cisticola
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
- African Yellow-Warbler
- Upcher’s Warbler
- Icterine Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Marsh Warbler
- Eurasian Reed Warbler
- Basra Reed Warbler
- Lesser Swamp Warbler
- Great Reed Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae
- Fan-tailed Grassbird
- Highland Rush Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae
Birds in Nairobi National Park
- Plain Martin
- Bank Swallow
- Banded Martin
- Rock Martin
- Barn Swallow
- Angola Swallow
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Lesser Striped Swallow
- Mosque Swallow
- Common House-Martin
- White-headed Sawwing
- Black Sawwing
- Gray-rumped Swallow
PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae
- Sombre Greenbul
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
- Northern Brownbul
- Gray-olive Greenbul
- Cabanis’s Greenbul
- Common Bulbul
PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae
- Wood Warbler
- Willow Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae
- Eurasian Blackcap
- Garden Warbler
- Barred Warbler
- Banded Parisoma
- Brown Parisoma
- Greater Whitethroat
PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae
- Pale White-eye
- Kikuyu White-eye
- Northern Yellow White-eye
PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae
- Rufous Chatterer
- Northern Pied-Babbler
PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker
PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae
- Wattled Starling
- Rosy Starling
- Violet-backed Starling
- Red-winged Starling
- Sharpe’s Starling
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Rüppell’s Starling
- Superb Starling
- Greater Blue-eared Starling
PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae
- Abyssinian Thrush
PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae
- African Dusky Flycatcher
- Spotted Flycatcher
- African Gray Flycatcher
- Pale Flycatcher
- Southern Black-Flycatcher
- White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
- Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
- Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
- Red-backed Scrub-Robin
- Cape Robin-Chat
- Rüppell’s Robin-Chat
- Spotted Morning-Thrush
- White-starred Robin
- White-throated Robin
- Thrush Nightingale
- Common Nightingale
- Common Redstart
- Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
- Whinchat
- African Stonechat
- Mocking Cliff-Chat
- Northern Anteater-Chat
- Northern Wheatear
- Capped Wheatear
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Pied Wheatear
PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
- Collared Sunbird
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Bronze Sunbird
- Malachite Sunbird
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird
- Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
- Beautiful Sunbird
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Variable Sunbird
PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae
- Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
- White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
- Gray-headed Social-Weaver

- Red-headed Weaver
- Baglafecht Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Holub’s Golden-Weaver
- Lesser Masked-Weaver
- Vitelline Masked-Weaver
- Speke’s Weaver
- Village Weaver
- Black-headed Weaver
- Chestnut Weaver
- Cardinal Quelea
- Red-billed Quelea
- Southern Red Bishop
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Yellow Bishop
- White-winged Widowbird
- Red-collared Widowbird
- Jackson’s Widowbird
- Grosbeak Weaver
PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae
Gray-headed Silverbill
- Bronze Mannikin
- Black-and-white Mannikin
- African Silverbill
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Black-faced Waxbill
- Common Waxbill
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Quailfinch
- Cut-throat
- Zebra Waxbill
- Purple Grenadier
- Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
- Blue-capped Cordonbleu
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Red-billed Firefinch
- African Firefinch
PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae
Birds in Nairobi National Park
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Eastern Paradise-Whydah
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Straw-tailed Whydah
- Village Indigobird
- Parasitic Weaver
PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae
- House Sparrow
- Kenya Rufous Sparrow
- Parrot-billed Sparrow
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae
- Cape Wagtail
- Mountain Wagtail
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Pipit
- Long-billed Pipit
- Tree Pipit
- Red-throated Pipit
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Pangani Longclaw
- Rosy-throated Longclaw
PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae
- African Citril
- Western Citril
- Reichenow’s Seedeater
- White-bellied Canary
- Southern Grosbeak-Canary
- Brimstone Canary
- Streaky Seedeater
- Yellow-crowned Canary
PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Somali Bunting
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting